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JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) has been conducting a research on a future commercial tilt wing VTOL (Vertical TakeOff and Landing) transport under JAXA's "Sky Frontier" Program aiming to develop technologies for aircraft innovation. The research focuses on QTW (Quad Tilt Wing) civil VTOL transport, which features tandem tilt wings with propellers mounted at the mid-span of each wing. The goals of the research in the present phase are to propose a concept of a QTW business VTOL transport system and to pursue the essential technologies development such as OEI (One-Engine-Inoperative) safe recovery, transition flight control and cruise efficient aerodynamic design. Nine passengers business QTW concept was designed and trade-off analysis of the propulsion system architecture for OEI safety was conducted. The result suggests the architecture having no cross-shaft mechanism with auto-failure-compensation is the most effective in terms of the system weight and operating cost.

This study deals with a simulation tool which enables evaluation of cockpit procedures by activating a crew behavioral model and dynamic environment of aircraft operations. This crew behavioral model employs both physical and cognitive characteristics of human crew members and the tool presents the sequence of their behavior in a form of three dimensional animation. In order to expand the area of application of this tool toward more specific design issues, functions of behavior in non-normal situations were developed. Applicability of this reinforced simulation tool was demonstrated by applying it to examinations of procedures of a research aircraft and identification of test cases of piloted flight simulation. The results of the behavioral simulation were compared with the results of piloted flight simulation.